Winter Mountaineering Course

I have been joined by repeat clients Naomi and Will for a three day winter mountaineering course in Scotland. The weather forecast was predicting heavy persistent rain, winds gusting 90mph on the summits and temperatures of 4 degrees c at 900m and was pretty accurate! We headed down to Glencoe and sought shelter under the cliffs of Stob Coire nan Lochain and Stob Coire nam Beith where we looked at avalanche avoidance, swollen stream crossings(!), tieing into the rope, body belays, rock anchors in winter and abseiling off the route. We were glad to join the throngs of other people by the fire in the Clachaig at the end of the day to dry out and recover from our thrashing! Once the temperature drops again we will have some fine neve to play on so roll on Monday!